Peter Kupfer wrote:
Hylton Conacher
It is not meant to be a calling out. I do it, because that is what others do.
Aahh, 'the sheep thing'. :)
Just trying to help out.
It makes sense though. It explains why the user has an unexpected e-mail from someone they haven't heard of in their inbox.
Yes and No. It makes sense, I suppose to the unsubscribed user but it is a nuisance to those who receive email from this busy list.
I would say that this is a far smaller problem (volume of e-mail wise) then the fact that we get asked the same question at least twice a week every week about MS Works, Word Perfect, file associations, etc...
So I guess it may be a small nuisance. Perhaps digest is the answer for some that don't like the volume. Out of the 100+ messages/day, I would bet less that 5% on average are reposts.
If they have the opportunity to post to the list from the web whilst not being a subscriber, perhaps rather send their message through as the list does now, but automate the sending of the normal 'As you are not subscribed you may not have seen..'.
Not all replies to a topic need to go back to the poster,....
How come? Surely if they asked a question they should get a reply on it?
Sometimes a post is repetitive and the answer has already been cced, or the topic may have digressed into something else, like a philosophical OOo debate.
This is done, I would imagine, so that when the user replies, it goes back to the list instead of to the person that tried to help.
ok. But it would be nice if the [users] list didn't have to receive 2 copies of the same reply to an unsubbed users query. Rather put in the forwarded answer to the unsubbed user that they must only reply to [email protected] as all other communication will be ignored. The 'moderators' could even create a new account in their email programs that says the email is from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then when the users reply it automatically goes to the list.
People tend to ignore those messages and they will reply to the user anyway.
I know this is a nuisance, but as far as I can tell, it is the best system for all. What would help most, is if people that are here a lot would make sure that they cc unsubsribed users.
-- Peter Kupfer OOo user since 'OO4 http://peschtra.tripod.com/open_office/ooo_front.htm
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